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Today in the World Countries
- National Remembrance Day is being celebrated in Papua New Guinea
- Renaissance Day is being celebrated in Oman
- Revolution Day is being celebrated in Egypt, Egypt
- People born on this day are Leo as their zodiac sign.
Today in History
On this day in 2023
- EVENTS
- Greece mounts it biggest evacuation, moving 19,000 tourists and residents out of the path of wildfires on the island of Rhodes amid the country's hottest July in 50 years.
- BIRTHS
- Andro121, TikTok Star, born in Saudi Arabia.
- Sea Neang, TikTok Star, born in Cambodia.
- DEATHS
- Inga Swenson, American stage and screen actress (110 in the Shade; Benson - "Gretchen"), who died at 90.
- TV SERIES
- Special Ops: Lioness: Season 1 is released. The Taylor Sheridan series inspired by the real-life CIA program centers on Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a Marine who is recruited to join the Lioness Engagement Team and go undercover in a terrorist organization.
- POLITICS
- Prime Minister Hun Sen Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declares a landslide win in the country's election, amid widespread criticism after any credible opponents were barred from running.
On this day in 2022
- EVENTS
- WHO declares monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern with 16,000 cases in 75 countries.
- DEATHS
- Bob Rafelson, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Monkees), and film maker (Five Easy Pieces; Easy Rider; Head), who died at 89.
On this day in 2021
- EVENTS
- At least 164 people die in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in Indian state of Maharashtra.
- Indonesia posts a record daily number of COVID-19 pandemic deaths at 1,566.
- BIRTHS
- Mila Ingham, YouTube Star, born in England.
- DEATHS
- John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II). dies from complications related to Parkinson's disease at 80.
- Tito Lupini, Italian rugby union prop (11 Tests; Rovigo) and coach (Rovigo), who died from COVID-19 pandemic at 65.
- MOVIES: JULY 23 2021
- Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage is released. Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults.
- MOVIES: NOT RATED
- Joe Bell is released. Joe Bell tells the intimate and emotional true story of an Oregonian father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin, embarking on a self-reflective walk across America to speak his heart to heartland citizens about the real and terrifying costs of bullying.
- Mandibles is released. When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
- Playing with Sharks is released. Pioneering scuba diver Valerie Taylor, who has dedicated her life to exposing the myth surrounding our fear of sharks.
- Charlatan is released. Few true stories tread the thin line between good and evil as precariously as that of Jan Mikolášek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets. Mikolášek won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for “urinary diagnosis”. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell – his assistant, František. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan’s dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life’s only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for single-mindedly following one’s calling.
- Ailey is released. Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. Ailey traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignotweaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
- MOVIES: NR
- Settlers is released. Mankind’s earliest settlers on the Martian frontier do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and each other.
- MOVIES: PG13
- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is released. Snake Eyes (Henry Golding), a tenacious loner, is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir apparent. Upon arrival in Japan, the Arashikage teach Snake Eyes the ways of the ninja warrior while also providing something he’s been longing for: a home. But, when secrets from his past are revealed, Snake Eyes’ honor and allegiance will be tested – even if that means losing the trust of those closest to him.
- Old is released. A family on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly - reducing their entire lives into a single day.
- MOVIES: R
- Midnight in the Switchgrass is released. While in Florida on another case, FBI agents Helter (Bruce Willis) and Lombardo (Megan Fox) cross paths with state cop Crawford (Emile Hirsch), who’s investigating a string of female murders that appear to be related. Lombardo and Crawford team up for an undercover sting, but it goes horribly wrong, plunging Lombardo into grave danger and pitting Crawford against a serial killer in a twisted game of cat and mouse.
- Jolt is released. Lindy is a beautiful, sardonically-funny woman with a painful secret: Due to a lifelong, rare neurological disorder, she experiences sporadic rage-filled, murderous impulses that can only be stopped when she shocks herself with a special electrode device. Unable to find love and connection in a world that fears her bizarre condition, she finally trusts a man long enough to fall in love, only to find him murdered the next day. Heartbroken and enraged, she embarks on a revenge-filled mission to find his killer, while also being pursued by the police as the crime’s prime suspect.
- Val is released. For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
- MOVIES: TVMA
- Last Letter from Your Lover is released. A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, Last Letter from Your Lover follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), the wife of a wealthy industrialist, and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner) the financial journalist assigned to cover him, a love story of Ellie’s own begins to unfold with the assistance of an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan) who helps her track down more letters. [Netflix]
- TV SERIES
- Masters of the Universe: Revelation: Season 1 is released. The animated series from Kevin Smith picks up from the end of the 1980s cartoon series with Prince Adam/He-Man (voiced by Chris Wood) fighting Skeletor (Mark Hamill).
- 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony is released. Postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, the four-hour ceremony launches the games.
- Ted Lasso: Season 2 is released. AFC Richmond are still struggling to win and a sports psychologist (Sarah Niles) is hired in the second season of the sports comedy from Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence.
- ALBUMS
- Yellow was released by Emma-Jean Thackray. This is the debut full-length release for the British jazz composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer.
- We're All Alone In This Together was released by Dave. The second full-length studio release for the British rapper features guest appearances from Snoh Aalegra, James Blake, Boj, Stormzy, and WizKid.
- Gold-Diggers Sound was released by Leon Bridges. The third full-length release for the R&B artist was recorded in Los Angeles and features guest appearances from Robert Glasper, Ink and Terrace Martin.
- Life, and Another was released by Mega Bog. The sixth full-length release for Erin Birgy as Mega Bog features contributions from Matt Bachmann, Zach Burba of iji, Andrew Dorset of Lake, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, James Krivchenia of Big Thief, Alex Liebman, Aaron Otheim, Will Segerstrom, and Jade Tcimpidis,
- Spiral was released by Darkside. The second full-length studio release for the collaboration between Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington features six track written in 2018.
- Change was released by Anika. The first full-length solo release since her self-titled debut in 2010 for Berlin-based artist was recorded with Martin Thulin.
- Downhill from Everywhere was released by Jackson Browne. The latest full-length release for the singer-songwriter features guest appearances from Leslie Mendelson and Eugene Rodriguez of Los Cenzontles.
- For Free was released by David Crosby. The latest full-length solo release for the singer-songwriter features a guest appearance from Sarah Jarosz.
- GAMING: PC
- Orcs Must Die! 3 for PC is released. Orcs Must Die! 3 ushers orc-slaying mayhem to a previously unimaginable scale. All new War Scenarios pit players and their friends against the largest orc armies ever assembled. Mountable War Machines give players the essential firepower to heave, stab, carbonize, and disarticulate the abominable intruders.
- SPORTS
- XXXII Summer Olympic Games officially open at the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.
On this day in 2020
- EVENTS
- US confirmed cases of COVID-19 pandemic pass 4 million with death toll over 143,000. Real number of cases likely up to 13x higher according to CDC..
- South Africa records more than 400,000 COVID-19 pandemic cases amid surging infections and decides to shut schools for a month.
- China launches its first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, a combined orbiter, lander and rover, from Wenchang Launch Site, Hainan Island.
- DEATHS
- Jean Brankart, Belgian cyclist (Tour de France 1955, Giro d'Italia 1958 runner-up; Belgium national track pursuit champion 1956,58,59), who died at 90.
- Scott Baker, Race Car Driver.
- GAMING: PC
- Roki for PC is released. Röki is an adventure game inspired by Scandinavian folklore - a dark, contemporary fairy tale underpinned by a touching narrative, an alluring art style, ancient puzzles and atmospheric exploration.
- Carrion for PC is released. In Carrion you’ll assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origin. Players will stalk and consume those that have imprisoned it to spread fear and panic throughout the facility. It will grow and evolve as you tear down the facility and acquire additional devastating abilities on the path to retribution that include a web-like ranged attack, the ability to bend light to become temporarily invisible, and even possess humans for maximum terror.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Crysis Remastered for Switch is released. The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around. Suit up: Your Nanosuit’s speed, strength, armor, and cloaking allow creative solutions for every kind of fight. Adapt: In an ever-changing environment, adapt your tactics to dominate on battlefields ranging from frozen jungle to alien environments. Customize: A huge arsenal of modular weaponry provides unprecedented control over play style, with options ranging from the experimental to the alien. Conquer: Life-like enemy AI require a strategic and flexible playstyle, as new challenges – including a zero-g battlefield– require players to take the offensive and be proactive. Explore: Choose your own path through the open world of Crysis, destroying obstacles, driving vehicles, and using the environment itself against your enemies. What begins as a simple rescue mission becomes the battleground of a new war as alien invaders swarm over a North Korean island chain. Armed with a powerful Nanosuit, players can become invisible to stalk enemy patrols, or boost strength to lay waste to vehicles. The Nanosuit’s speed, strength, armor, and cloaking allow creative solutions for every kind of fight, while a huge arsenal of modular weaponry provides unprecedented control over play style. In the ever-changing environment, adapt tactics and gear to dominate your enemies, in an enormous sandbox world.
- GERRRMS for Switch is released. Gerrrms is a party brawl game that puts you in the role of a microorganism fighting against its single-celled opponents. Take part in the eternal battle of the microbes! Become one of the sneaky bacteria and tech your friends their place in line. This is the best micro brawl game out there.Play as one of 11 unlockable characters with different personalities.There are as many as seven game modes!Deathmatch - this is the classic germ vs germ warfare.
- POLITICS
- Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian politician, President of Tanzania (1995-2005), who died at 81.
On this day in 2019
- EVENTS
- BHP becomes the first mining company to tackle pollution, says it will invest $400 million to reduce emissions.
- Nike's Jordan Brand signs 2019 NBA #1 draft pick Zion Williamson to richest multiyear sponsorship deal for a rookie in history; estimated 7 years for $75 million.
- Investigation launched after no girls born in three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective abortions suspected as the reason.
- US Senate passes bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money.
- GAMING: PC
- Tetris Effect for PC is released. Named after a real-world phenomenon where players' brains are so engrossed that images of the iconic falling Tetrimino blocks (i.e. the Tetris playing pieces) linger in their vision, thoughts, and even dreams, Tetris Effect amplifies this magical feeling of total immersion by surrounding you with fantastic, fully three-dimensional worlds that react and evolve based on how you play. Music, backgrounds, sounds, special effects -- everything, down to the Tetris pieces themselves, pulse, dance, shimmer, and explode in perfect sync with how you're playing.From deep beneath the ocean to the furthest reaches of outer space and everywhere between, Tetris Effect's 30-plus stages take players on a wondrous, emotional journey through the universe. The core of the game is still Tetris -- one of the most popular puzzle games of all time -- but like you've never seen it, or heard it, or felt it before.
- GAMING: PLAYSTATION 4
- Wargroove for PlayStation 4 is released. Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players. Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools.
- GAMING: SWITCH
- Run the Fan for Switch is released. The game consists of over 50 boards, and your goal is the same on each of them: to switch on the fan. But to achieve that, you must do much more than just push the button. There is a current generator on each of the boards, linked to the fan through a path. Problem is, the path is broken in several places. To ensure that the current reaches the fan uninterrupted, you must create an electric arc wherever the circuit was damaged.
- Automachef for Switch is released. It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today. Plan. Position. Program: Design and build automated restaurants, then program them to run like well-oiled machines! Do you have a can-do attitude and the know-how to conquer the world of automated restaurants? Challenging Puzzles: Fine tune your mind as you tackle intricate spatial, resource management and scenario puzzles! Not enough hot dogs? You’ll sort it! Kitchens on fire? No problem for a smart human like you. Multiple Brain-Tickling Modes: Take on the campaign levels, traverse your way through the business world in contracts mode, or just go nuts and bolts in the sandbox test mode and play until you get your fill.
- POLITICS
- Boris Johnson is chosen the new British Prime Minister by the ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May.
On this day in 2018
- EVENTS
- Environmental reports finds China on track to reach new emission targets, but carbon dioxide emissions risen - 9.2 billion metric tons in 2017, more than US and Europe combined.
- First graphic novel to be nominated for a major literary prize is "Sabrina" by Nick Drnaso for Booker long list.
- Dam collapses while under construction in Attapeu province, Laos, killing at least 20 with more than 100 missing.
- 250,000 doses of vaccines for children produced by a firm in China faulty according to reports in China.
- " Sabrina" by Nick Drnaso becomes 1st graphic novel named to Longlist for Man Booker Prize (best fiction written in English).
- Slum homes for 30,000 people demolished to make way for a dual carriage way in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya.
- The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) warned against the growing trend of people jumping out of moving cars and dancing to Drake's ‘In My Feelings’..
On this day in 2017
- EVENTS
- Women's Cricket World Cup: England beat India by 9 runs in the final at Lords in London.
- British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: American Jordan Spieth wins by 3 strokes from countryman Matt Kuchar.
- DEATHS
- Amir Fryszer Guttman, Pop Singer.
- Denisa Raducu, Pop Singer.
- Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ships 1954, French C'ships 1958)), who died at 87.
- TV SERIES
- Insecure: Season 2 is released. The second season of the comedy about the lives of best friends Issa (Issa Rae) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) in Los Angeles.
On this day in 2016
- EVENTS
- Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility.
- WEDDINGS
- Actor Corbin Bleu at the age of 27 weds actress Sasha Clements at the age of 26 at Hummingbird Nest in Santa Susana, California.
- TV SERIES
- Looking: The Movie is released. Patrick (Jonathan Groff) faces the people he left behind when he returns to San Francisco attend a wedding after nearly a year away in Denver in the feature length movie that wraps up the HBO series.
- POLITICS
- Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78,79-82) and sheep farmer, who died at 90.
On this day in 2015
- EVENTS
- NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b,1,400 light years from Earth.
- Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.
- GAMING: 3DS
- 3D Streets of Rage II for 3DS is released. Original rumblers Axel and Blaze slam the asphalt with bigger, better, totally devastating attacks! Skull-crushing ex-wrestler Max Thunder joins up with earth-shattering body slams and spinning fist attacks. New thrasher Skate slices punks with high speed in-line skate attacks and spinning jump kicks. Go maniac with jaw-shattering, bone-busting punches, head-cracking jump kicks and secret weapons. Gangs of dirt bikers dive into you from every side. Smash 'em with a pipe as they speed by. 16 gigantic megs of compound fractures! All new moves, and more of 'em! Bust knuckles with a friend in an all-new 2-player head-to-head mode!
- GAMING: PC
- Feist for PC is released. Outwit a sprawling forest full of secret danger and fierce creatures in the world of FEIST.
- Blues and Bullets - Episode 1: The End of Peace for PC is released. Eliot Ness, the former leader of the legendary Untouchables, wished only to spend the rest of his days working in his diner, not dwelling too much on the cesspit of corruption his city, Santa Esperanza, had degenerated into. But things rarely go as planned.
- The Talos Principle: Road To Gehenna for PC is released. The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna follows the narrative of Uriel, Elohim's messenger, as he explores a strange, hidden part of the simulation on a mission of mercy and redemption in an attempt to free the souls of the damned at all costs.This substantial expansion consists of four episodes that take experienced players through some of the most advanced and challenging puzzles yet. The Talos Principle writers Tom Jubert and Jonas Kyratzes have returned to pen the expansion and show players an entirely different side of Elohim's world through a journey to Gehenna filled with new characters and a new society with its own history and philosophy.
- Way of the Samurai 4 for PC is released. Set in post-isolationist Japan, Way of the Samurai 4 offers a unique way to experience an era that forever changed a nation. The era's cultural landscape offers countless opportunities for the ambitious, and players are thrown into this world as a ronin (masterless samurai) looking to make a name for himself. Taking their place in the overall power struggle, players will be given the choice to align themselves with one of three factions: the shogunate pro-governmental forces, the nationalistic isolationists and the growing foreign powers, and their loyalty and interaction with each of the three factions will shape the story towards one of ten possible different endings.
- Zenzizenzic for PC is released. Zenzizenzic is a fast-paced twin stick bullet hell shoot 'em up and open world roguelike. Featuring an abstract art style and a thumping, soundtrack, it promises to get your thumbs sweating and your blood pumping.
- GAMING: WII U
- Canvaleon for Wii U is released. Canvaleon is a platform and stealth game in which you will step into the shoes of Canvas, a friendly white chameleon, and help him using your abilities and the environment in order to overcome some really dangerous enemies and threats.
On this day in 2014
- EVENTS
- 44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan.
- DEATHS
- Anne Mackenzie, South African long distance athlete, who died at 88.
- Dora Bryan [Broadbent], British stage and screen actress (A Taste of Honey), novelty singer (" All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle"), and hotelier dies at 91.
- David Anspaugh, Race Car Driver.
- MOVIES: NOT RATED
- A Letter to Momo is released. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight – and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words “Dear Momo” but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of Shio, Momo soon discovers three yokai living in her attic, a trio of mischievous spirit creatures that only she can see and who create mayhem in the tiny seaside community as she tries desperately to keep them hidden. But these funny monsters have a serious side and may hold the key to helping Momo discover what her father had been trying to tell her. [Gkids]
- A Master Builder is released. A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying everyone around him wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
- GAMING: PC
- Unrest for PC is released. Legends tell of heroes, villains, and quests that save the world from darkness. The streets tell a different story. Unrest is a story driven RPG set in ancient India in the midst of an uprising. Play as ordinary men and women struggling for safety, freedom, food for their children, and a chance at peace.
- GAMING: XBOX 360
- The Walking Dead: Season Two Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins for Xbox 360 is released. Free from their brutal captor, the group continues their journey north. However, hunger, violence and death have taken their toll. Smoldering conflicts and inevitable changes within the group remind Clementine that danger can come from within, as well as from the outside; she must choose her allies wisely in this second-to-last episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two.
- SPORTS
- 20th Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow, Scotland.